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Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1, sentence 134

As he lay on the ground he saw the scabs and said, “These Indians will call this wa·′kwαní [16] and when they go hungry they can make soup for themselves, these Ojibwa, forever.”

Who acts: ′, Indians · What happens: lie, see, say, call, go, make · To what, where: ground, scabs, wa, soup · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (′, Indians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

marknsubjadvclcasedetoblnsubjdetobjccconjpunctpunctdetnsubjauxccompdetobjpunctflat:foreignconjpunctappospunctccadvmodnsubjconjxcompnsubjauxparataxisobjcaseoblpunctdetoblpunctadvmodpunctpunctrootAsSCONJhePRONlayVERBonADPtheDETgroundNOUNhePRONsawVERBtheDETscabsNOUNandCCONJsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTTheseDETIndiansPROPNwillAUXcallVERBthisDETwaNOUN·PUNCT′XkwαníNOUN[PUNCT16NUM]PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVtheyPRONgoVERBhungryADJtheyPRONcanAUXmakeVERBsoupNOUNforADPthemselvesPRON,PUNCTtheseDETOjibwaPROPN,PUNCTforeverADV.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasSCONJ_3 laymark
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 laynsubj
3laylieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 sawadvcl
4ononADP_6 groundcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 grounddet
6groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing3 layobl
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 sawnsubj
8sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 scabsdet
10scabsscabNOUNNumber=Plur8 sawobj
11andandCCONJ_12 saidcc
12saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 sawconj
13,,PUNCT_18 callpunct
14“"PUNCT_18 callpunct
15ThesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem16 Indiansdet
16IndiansIndianPROPNNumber=Plur18 callnsubj
17willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin18 callaux
18callcallVERBVerbForm=Inf12 saidccomp
19thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem20 wadet
20wawaNOUNNumber=Sing18 callobj
21··PUNCT_23 kwαnípunct
22′′XForeign=Yes23 kwαníflat:foreign
23kwαníkwαníNOUNAbbr=Yes Number=Plur18 callconj
24[[PUNCT_25 16punct
251616NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card23 kwαníappos
26]]PUNCT_25 16punct
27andandCCONJ_30 gocc
28whenwhenADVPronType=Int30 goadvmod
29theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs30 gonsubj
30gogoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 callconj
31hungryhungryADJDegree=Pos30 goxcomp
32theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs34 makensubj
33cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin34 makeaux
34makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf30 goparataxis
35soupsoupNOUNNumber=Sing34 makeobj
36forforADP_37 themselvescase
37themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes34 makeobl
38,,PUNCT_40 Ojibwapunct
39thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem40 Ojibwadet
40OjibwaOjibwaPROPNNumber=Sing18 callobl
41,,PUNCT_42 foreverpunct
42foreverforeverADV_18 calladvmod
43..PUNCT_18 callpunct
44”"PUNCT_18 callpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1liepast′the groundvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
2seepast′the scabsvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scab=Stimulus
3say speech: assertpast′ not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4call in a quotefuturethis Indiansthis wathis Ojibwa obl; ′ kwαní conj; forever propertyvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wa=Recipient
5go in a quotepresentIndians = indianhungry propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6make in a quotecanIndians = indiansoupfor Scabs = scabvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent soup=Material for themselves=Beneficiary

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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